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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Daily Sketch #6: Licky

Not a scary piece today, unless you have a galloping phobia of being licked by some sort of two-legged dino-cow.

This is me rather obnoxiously playing with brushes (check out that background! Computeriffic!), but I like the shading I'm starting to get. I'd been really missing the softness of my watercolors, and I feel like I'm beginning to approach it again. The secret appears to be messin' with brush opacity. Ruby, you were missing the brushes too-- what do you think?

I'm still trying to get a good watercolor effect out of PS, I have a tutorial for it, actually...but I haven't gotten it to work yet. I have figured out how to get a good 'marker' though. Try setting the brush to multiply...it really changes the way your colors mix!

And the different brushes are something that I don't play with enough. :(